File:Carte De L'Egypte De La Nubie De L'Abissinie etc (MAPS 89).jpg
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English: Carte De L'Egypte De La Nubie De L'Abissinie etc. |
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DescriptionCarte De L'Egypte De La Nubie De L'Abissinie etc (MAPS 89).jpg |
English: Copper engraving handcolored with watercolor. Outline color. Relief shown pictorially. Printed in top border: "Carte De L'Egypte De La Nubie De L'Abissinie etc. Par Guillaume De Lisle de l'Acadmie Rle. Des Sciences." Printed in upper right corner is a scale comparing Turkish leagues, marine leagues and common French leagues. Printed beneath scale: "A Paris Chez l'Auteur sur le Quai de l'Horloge a l'Aigle d'Or avec Privileore pour 20 ans Nov. 1707." Printed in lower right corner: "Desrosiers Sculp." Written in ink in upper right corner: "73." Shows northern and eastern Africa including Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Persia and Ethiopia. Includes details of the Middle East and shows the Mediterranean Sea in the northwest corner. Depicts the Nile River, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Shows various kingdoms and European settlements with commentary. The southern edge of Sicily, Turkey, and Greece are visible in the north. Includes symbols for mountains, rivers, lakes, forests and cities. Prime Meridian: Isle de Fer. Scale c.a. 1:9,200,000.Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726) was a cartographer and the Premier Geographer to the King in France beginning in 1718. His family played a significant part in the world of French cartography in the eighteenth century. At age 9, he drew his first map and at age 27 he became a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences. He studied under Jacques Cassini, acquiring knowledge in both mathematics and astronomy. Due to his academic background and his "critical approach to the maps of his predecessors," he became known as the first "scientific cartographer" (Moreland and Bannister, 132). Among his works are "Globe, map of the world and the four continents" (1700), "Atlas de Géographie" (1700-12), "Mississippi" (1701), "Carte du Mexique et de la Floride…" (c.a. 1703), "Carte de la Louisiane et du Mississippi" (1718) and posthumously, "Atlas Noveau" (1730 and later). Following his death, his widow, Marie Angélique de L'Isle took up the business with a partner, Philippe Buache (Tooley 395; Moreland and Bannister, 131-2). This particular map was first published in De L'Isle's "Atlas de Geographie." The map follows the geographic information known of this part of Africa current to the time period. Source(s): Moreland, Carl and David Bannister. "Antique Maps: A Collector's Handbook." New York: Longman Group, Ltd., 1983. Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979.
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Publisher InfoField | L'Isle, Guillaume de 1675-1726 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Digital ID Number InfoField | MAP144 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Condition InfoField | Brown stain in center. Light browning around edges. Small hole beneath Persian Gulf. Has binder's guard. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: World and Regional Maps Collection |
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creator QS:P170,Q1389662 English: Desrosiers |
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Map location | Middle East | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Atlas de Geographie." L'Isle, Guillaume de. Paris: Guillaume de L'Isle, 1731. |
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Place of publication | Paris | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q219563
University of Washington: Special Collections |
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height: 50 cm (19.6 in); width: 62 cm (24.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,50U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,62U174728 |
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